O Carnaval na ilha Terceira

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Luiz Fagundes
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/comunicacaoecultura.2010.546

The Carnival Shrove Tuesday festival on Terceira island displays characteristics that distinguish it from the Azorean, Portuguese and international cultural context: the commemorations traditionally ascribed to this period of the year are being progressively replaced by theatrical works combined with music and dance, and involving almost the entire population of the island. These representations are called “danças [dances]”, which in their satirical strand are designated “bailhinhos [little balls in local terminology]”, and do not fall into the category of folklore. Texts, music and choreography are authored by participants, and are always original texts motivated by topical events and composed of rhymed verses in “redondilha maior [seven syllable verses]” frequently ordered from local poets. The origins of this popular cultural phenomenon probably date back to the 16th century and derive from Iberian theater acted out on vessels crossing the Atlantic during the 16th -18th centuries. Some features connecting them with slave trafficking and the transatlantic sugar production circuit with some choreographic and dramatic traditions from the Brazilian Northeast also identifiable.